Allan Ralph Andrews, Born Long Beach, California, September 13Th 1939
Allan Ralph Andrews, born Long Beach, California, September 13th 1939:
In the book African Philosophy, it is discussed how the ancestors and chiefs, belong, with the gods, in the Dreamtime. If you do any kind of long term genealogy, you can see fact disappear into legend and ordinary history gradually become apart of ancient dreams. It takes a long time before the genealogy of my grandmother begins to connect with the dukes and then the kings and then the emperors and then the legendary kings and emperors. There is a point at which someone has traced her roots to ancient troy. There is a genealogy that connects my grandmother with Aphrodite and eventually with Zeus. I can choose another that connects her with Odin, or with Eve. I can connect her with the rulers of Egypt and China, with Rome and Persia, to the Prophets of Islam and Judea. It is not clear just where fact slips into legend. It does so slowly, but inevitably. The ancients were more aware of this fact than we are. It made them more sane in someways.
The Finite Game, as Carse explains in Finite and Infinite Games, is framed by the realm of the Infinite Game, which never ends, goes on and on, there is not one correct explanation of the infinite game, of the genealogy of the Dreamtime Zamani there is no one true form. This is the right brain connection with the subconscious and through the subconscious with the collective unconscious, which is the roots through which our genealogical and cultural information connect with the larger whole.
At a certain point in this regression, legend triumphs over fact, theology triumphs over biology, the genetic yields to the psychic and the psychic to the mystic. This realm of astrology and reincarnation is a foggy area at the edge of the unknown. Do soul complexes emerge out of the mathematics of the possible, the infinite flux that makes the improbable probable and allows the revulsion of the void to generate passion from energy and mind from information systems, pleasure from integration and pain from disintegration, does this interact with the finite world through these mythological and genealogical structures? Does the infinitesimal monad of the soul connect its passion and pleasure with the energy and integration of the objective world through this intermediate area that Ernest Holmes associates with the psychic and with a strange entity he terms “race thought.”
In a certain sense, it does not matter. The right hemisphere loves long fishing lines and the rich images of astrology and genealogy tap into its dream rich language. If there was a world of ghostly shadows, would these shadows be any wiser in death than in life, would they have access to any more information than we have? If the right brain world of dreams wiser and more accurate than the left.
Scientific evidence indicates that the symbol systems of the right brain are better at meanings and relationships and the factual systems of the left brain are better at accurate and definitive descriptions. We can imagine these ghost and astrological gods hunting for signs of things that they like, that feel right. Does it matter if these ghosts and gods are real or simply metaphors stored in hidden places in the right hemisphere, either way they may hold clues to forgotten and darker pieces of who and what we are. So, in this astrological and genealogical world of legends, it is story and symbol, meaning and richness of feeling that we are looking for, not scientific fact or accurate history.
August 23rd 2012, Allan Ralph Andrews, Bakersfield, CA.
The problem is that left brain thinking is limited by the finite limits of this world. But this world is not the unlimited source in which all logical things are probable at some level. My Heaven Trigram immortality is infinitely different from my Earth Trigram mortality and my Wind Trigram set point is utterly different from my Thunder Trigram local progression. There are group souls and astral complexes to which I am locally attached and they will continue their local development and association. My ultimate being from within monad becomes all things within the infinite and branches and reawakens in an infinite complex of possibilities. At this level, my core is not linear, but branches endlessly into and endless complex of possible worlds, I become many things and an endless immensity of places and combinations in ways I cannot fathom in this limited and restricted here and now world.
Allan Ralph Andrews, Bakersfield, CA., August 23rd 2012
The simplest possible explanation of the world is the Chinese notion of yin and yang, of mathematical potential as yin and energy potential as yang. The possible qualities this yin and yang combination can take are endlessly conserved and the actual quantity in energy is endlessly conserved. All things hidden and manifest are constructed from this interaction. The visible is the result of the interaction of eldest daughter yin mathematics and systems potential with middle daughter yin quantum mechanics and particle and wave formation and youngest daughter yin space time relativity stimulated by eldest son yang energy flux to generate the Earth and Thunder Trigrams of the I Ching, the emergence of the invisible into the visible world. For me Earth Trigram symbolizes the visible and Thunder symbolizes its emergence and evolution.
The simplest possible explanation of the polarity of the subjective and the objective, is that the subjective is simply the bending inward of the objective, generating passion from energy and information from mathematical structure, generating pleasure from integration and pain from disintegration, generating phenomenology from concentration and time and space associations from attachments and distributed associations. Eldest son yang is the infinite flux that extends into the integration of all things in the boundless that is middle son and yang and the concentration into the infinitesimal subjective now that is youngest son yang to generate the Heaven Trigram that makes the improbable probable to stimulate the emergence of the classical ideal in the metaphysics of Wind Trigram. Flame Trigram is the connection between this source and the emerging world in Thunder Trigram and the resulting complexity in Lake Trigram.
Water Pit Trigram is the order emerging from Wind into Earth and back through Mountain Trigram into Wind. So Heaven is the subjective, the romantic temper, the Magical aspect of existence. Wind Trigram is the ideal, the classical temper, the Metaphysical aspect of existence. Earth Trigram is the realistic temper it is Science. Thunder Trigram is the world of business, the practical, the expressionist temper. Flame Trigram is the cubist temper, the realm of Art. Mountain Trigram is the impressionist temper, the realm of Philosophy. Water Pit Abysm Trigram is the baroque temper, the realm of Government. Lake Trigram is the realm of scripture, of literature, of ideology, astrology and of the symbolist and post-impressionist temper. It is the opposite of Mountain Trigram, the realm of the impressionist temper and empirical Philosophy.
In respect to the Process Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, Heaven would be God and Wind would be Eternal Objects, Earth would be actual occasions and Thunder would be the Events that create them. Flame would be Contrasts and Mountain would be Prehensions, Water Pit would be Propositions and Lake would be Nexi. It is obvious then that, Heaven is the Infinite of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and
Earth is the finite. Wind is the necessary and Thunder the contingent. Flame is the free and Water Pit is the unfree. Mountain is the simple and Lake is the complex. The simplest explanation of the observed, then, is to extend the complementary system of Quantum Mechanics from the position and speed and wave and particle problems to the duality between energy and information and relativity and quantum mechanics, to the duality between the free and its opposite, the necessary and the contingent, the subjective and the objective, the simple idea and the complex synchronicity to which it belongs. There is now no panpsychic problem, only a complementary panpsychic effect, an extension of the wave function and M Theory into a new realm of complements that is a simple extension of those already given.
Allan Ralph Andrews, Bakersfield, CA Saturday Aug 25th 2012
In respect to eternity, what is happening is infinite flux making the mathematically ideal improbable probable and its emergence in the visible world as Heaven Trigram stimulates Wind Trigram to become manifest in Earth Trigram and evolve and expand in Thunder. But, just as important is the intermediate astral race thought synchronicity, the phenomenology of freewill and natural selection in Flame generating analysis in Mountain and homeostatic order in Water Pit and complex associations in Lake, of Karma in Flame generating consciousness and mind in Lake and Dharma in Water Pit linked to astrology and rebirth in Lake. This intermediate realm in neither mortal nor immortal, but unites aspects of both. Much of the experience of the soul is linked to this intermediate realm through which it moves in its attachments and detachments from bodies and physical forms.
So we have two contrary movements out of the infinite flux that makes the improbable probable and generates the expansion of the universe that drives the processes of evolution as an aspect of entropy and natural selection as an aspect of the competition between energy dissipative structure. Heaven Trigram generates divinity as the interaction of the infinite and the infinitesimal and the emergence of the Wind Trigram ideal from its Heaven Trigram source. From Wind Trigram comes the Earth Trigram product and its full expression in the evolutionary developments that are Thunder Trigram.
But moving counter to this downward expression is the action of energy as the Karma that moves the Dharma order of all things and generates individual attachment to individual bodies in the development of local mind and the complexes of attachments and detachments that are the birth and rebirth of the attached and detached soul in various chains of samsara, of birth and rebirth. Flame Trigram is the competitive attachment and detachment of the soul and Mountain Trigram is its individual experience and thought. Water Pit Abysm is the Dharma, the astrology, the fate that governs this attachment and detachment and Lake is the complex web of this birth and rebirth and the genealogy of the bodies and societies to which the soul attaches and detaches in the complex relationships of it birth and death.
Hinduism puts emphasis on the magical powers that are the source of these actions and Buddhism on the ideal relationships that give it meaning. Platonism, Buddhism, Jainism all emphasized these interactions in Wind Trigram, Jainism with emphasis on youngest son yang in the monad soul, Buddhism on middle son yang in the gone gone utterly beyond compassion that is the unutterable one, and Platonism in the nous, the Santa Sophia, the rational and mathematical wisdom that is the eldest daughter dharma axis of the whole.
Christianity has its mental roots in this Platonism, but its physical expression in the utilitarianism of the Earth Trigram and its resulting science. Both Earth and Thunder belong to the material world, with Earth being more the socialist and Thunder more the capitalist aspect of the manifest.
It contrast, Flame has always belonged to the primitive and the shamanistic and Mountain to empirical philosophy. Water Pit Abysm belongs to the fatalism of Vedic and Arabic astrology, the polar opposite of the openness of Flame. Lake belongs to Chinese synchronism between Confucian ancestor worship in youngest daughter yin, Daoist energy of the Way of eldest son yang, and Buddhist middle son yang.
This is the complex realm of mythology and synchronicity that ties the Thunder Trigram of evolution of the complex source in Heaven Trigram possibility from which it comes. The soul in life belongs to the process philosophy of the prehensions and the impressionism of Mountain Trigram and in death to the nexi and the symbolism and post-impressionism on the synchronicity and complexity of the dreamtime world, the astral world, the race thought world, the ghost of the ancestors in Lake Trigram.
Heaven and Wind Trigram function in the realm of the immeasurably small immediate and the immeasurable large boundless eternal, the realm of the gods, Earth and Thunder in the realm of measurable time and space, the realm of evolving creatures. Thunder, Mountain, Water Pit Abysm, and Lake belong to the intermediate realm, neither finite nor infinite, neither time nor timeless, but a bit of both. Thunder is the Karma of that realm, the freedom, the adventure. Water Pit Abysm is the corresponding reward and punishment, purgatory, heaven, hell, the Dharma, the justice, the effect that responds to the flaming cause. Mountain is the awakening of the mind of the embodied to its freedom and Lake is its death and absorption back into the ancestral dreamtime, the common fate of men and animals, the ancestors, the gods themselves, in the complex and deep interaction of all things that ties evolution in the Thunder of the here and now back to the timeless quiet of the endless flux from which it came, the exploding silence of the galaxies of stars in Heaven Trigram.
Genealogy is one doorway to that hidden Lake, a fishing line trawling deep into its hidden silence that pulls up ancient forgotten treasures and calls them back to momentary ghostly life.
Allan Ralph Andrews, Bakersfield, CA, August 26th, Sunday, 2012
The basic atoms of existence are the jiva, the infinitesimal monads of the now that invert integration into pleasure and disintegration into pain, energy into passion and mathematics into information, individuation into awareness and collective absorption into dreams and sleep. From these phenomenological atoms come linear developments that generate simple phenomenological time and systems of attachment and detachment, of birth and rebirth. From the association of these points and lines of phenomenology emerge complex time and space, the time and space of measurement and science. But the root of the measurable is in the immeasurable. Wakefulness and sleep, birth and death of conscious occur on the breaking point between the infinite source and the finite product, the necessary ideal and the contingent expression, between the dreamtime world of the possible and the observed world of the actual.
Allan Ralph Andrews, Bakersfield, CA, August 27th 2012
Only in meditation and dreams does the soul plunge into its complex roots. In normal life it is carried along by its astrologic and genealogic attachments that root it to its body and its visible world. There is no ability for it to find its deeper attachments because the energy of its surface processes focuses it on the objective world and the space time relationships symbolized in the astrological relationships of that world. Only detachment and meditation make possible any changes in this imposed fate. The past and present connections of the soul to its body and the genealogy of the bodies to which it was previously attached link the soul to a complex social and environmental structure from which it is extremely difficult to gain liberation. This has been the message of spiritual literature for two thousand years.
Flame is the trigram of liberation and Mountain is the trigram of thought and experience. Water Pit Abysm is the trigram of bondage and fate that frames experience and thought, and Lake is the trigram of the astrological and genealogical dreamtime that links the expression of that fate in Thunder to its genesis in Heaven.
August 28th 2012, Allan Ralph Andrews
Hinduism puts focus on the primitive energy of the infinite that generates the magical aspects of all things, Buddhism on the ideal form that magic takes. New Thought, as in Religious Science, on the impression of that ideal on the mind and the possibility of liberation through the power of mind in Flame Trigram. Water Pit Abysm Trigram is the law of mind in action that generates the realistic expression of these processes in Earth and Thunder Trigram. Lake is the deep complex of birth and rebirth that acts though the interaction of Karma in Flame and thought in Mountain to generate the world of our experience in Water Pit Abysm Trigram.
So magical Hinduism in a romantic Heaven Trigram source is opposed to a scientific result in Earth Trigram and ideal Pythagorean Neoplatonism in a classical Wind Trigram source is opposed to pragmatic evolutionary progressive thermodynamics. Fatalistic astrological purgatory is the Dharma of Water Pit Abysm that is opposed to the Shamanistic freedom of Flame. The New Thought empiricism of Mountain generates Whitehead process philosophy prehensions that complement the Jungian synchronicity and dialectics of Lake Trigram. In Lake is the pool of the genealogical and collective unconscious. It is psychic, it is a web of birth and rebirth that forms the deep psychic complexity of Lake Trigram, the post-impressionism and symbolism that complements the impressionism of Mountain.